actually, I started from scratch, re-uploaded the entire wp to /blog , created a fresh database, and still get the “too many files open” error. (so it doesn’t have anything to do with changing themes, except the error occures when I navigate to the presentation themes page.
Any ideas?
Got it solved!
My godaddy account was trashed, or sooo messed up, it just wouldn’t work. (It was originally windows/asp, running front page, then de-front-paged it, de-windows’d it and changed to php linux hosting, but still didn’t work.
I noticed something about upgrade to 2.0 feature set, and I figured it would be best to cancel my hosting account, wait till it purged, then create a new one with today’s current defaults and settings. That solved it. I simply did the same install I must have tried 20 times, and it worked out of the box.
So, sometimes, a completely fresh start is a good idea. BTW, my hosting account was many years old, so it might not have everything a freshly setup php account would have today.
One final thought to close the loop on this whole discussion.
Just for fun, I renamed my blog folder on the folder, did a fresh install to a fresh, empty folder and this time DID NOT do the whole permissions thing. It worked fine. Interestingly, I used my original database config file and sure enough, my sample posts were there. I created a new database, and changed my config file, and sure enough, it walked me through the install. I think I’ll keep my second/fresh install done without changing permissions on the folders.
Mike
